Improvement in paper boxes



E. Def. SHELTON.

PAPER-BOX. No.1711958. Patented Jan.11,1876-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- EDWARD DE FOREST SHELTCN, OF BIRMINGHAM,CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,958, dated January11, 1876; application filed September 9, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. DE FOREST SHEL- TON, of Birmingham, in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Paper Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying draw- 7 ings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, ill- Figure 1, diagram of the blank, showing the methodof cutting; Figs. 2, 3, longitudinal sections through the box,illustrating the method of closing.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of thatclass .of paper boxes designed for putting up various articles ofmanufacture, with special reference to the putting up of tacks and likesmall articles, the object being to close and lock the bottom; and itconsists in the method hereinafter described of cutting and folding theblank to accomplish said result.

From a sheet of paper the blank is cut in the form shown in Fig. 1, thesolid lines denoting cuts, and the broken lines the folds. A is one sideB the second, C the third, and D the fourth, side. One of the extremesides is provided with a lap, E, which is pasted to the opposite side,when bent into form, at angles denoted by the broken lines 1, 2, 3, and4..

After the sides are thus brought into shape the flap F on the side D isturned inward close against its own side, as seen in Fig. 2; then theflaps G G are turned to meet each other; then a bend is made inthe flapH to form a tuck, I. This tuck is passed in beneath the flap F, as seenin Fig. 2, and then the tuck I and the flap F both turned down upon theflaps G, as denoted in Fig. 3. This securely locks the tuck I, and formsthe bottom of the box complete. The top is closed, first, by a flap, LL, on the side A C, turnedtoward each other; then a flap, N, on the sideB is turned forward, and the tuck P on the flap N turned into the boxagainst the side D, as seen in Fig. 3; then the tuck R on the side D isother side, B, the said tuck I folded between the flaps G and F to formthe bottom of the box, substantially as described.

EDWARD DE F. SHELTON.

Witnesses:

THos. L. CORNELL, THos. S. BIRDSEY.

